Hello,
I fwd this mail because the project is sponsored by WMDE and
multilingual maps are a topic of Wikipedia.
Greetings Kolossos
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Betreff: Multilingual maps demo
Datum: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:34:21 +0100
Von: Jochen Topf <jochen(a)remote.org>
An: talk(a)openstreetmap.org
Newsgruppen: gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap
Hi!
I have been working on a multilingual OSM map, ie. a map where you, the
user can decide in which language the labels should be. A demo of the
system is now available at http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ . The tiles for
this demo are rendered on tile.openstreetmap.de, the software used is
the MapQuest Render Stack with modifications by me. You can choose any
language or language combination for the labels.
This is only a demo, the site might be slow or not work at all. Please
try it out and tell me what you like and what you don't like.
For more about this project see:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project
Jochen
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Hi folks,
it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).
To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.
WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Erik!
Thats excellent news :-))
I would suggest to meet in Berlin. Wikimedia Germany is financing the
current toolserver infrastructure, could organize a location and we could
team up with the folks from Wikidata.
At Wikicon 2012 we made a wish list of things we would like to get
implemented:
- Common way to store geodata in Wikipedia
- Better OSM integration
- Import of GeoTiff [0] and Exif GPS [1] Tagging Data
- World file [2] support
I'm currently working on how to integrate Landsat [3] data. The current
Landsat 7 satellite is damaged and has pretty outdated sensors. But the
upcoming Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) mission will provide freely
availably medium resolution (15-60m/pixel) pictures of every place of the
earth in 16 days interval which could be a good fit for Wikipedia.
cu andreas
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotiff
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat
2012/11/28 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
> Hi folks,
>
> it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
> some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
> to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
> obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
> recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
> probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
> mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).
>
> To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
> volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
> face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
> development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.
>
> WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
> bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
> there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
> Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
> know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
> options as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
>
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>
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Hello,
there are some new features in OSM-Gadget:
*As additional layer we support the tiles from Opengeoserver.at.
This service combines satellite and aerial images from different
sources[1]. Best image quality is available in parts of Austria and
Bavaria. The primary aim of Opengeoserver is to be a mapping tool for
OSM. Please respect that if have not the server power of Google maps,
buts a beginning.
The images looks interesting together with the transparent tiles we are
using for multilingual rendering and with our hillshading.
*For a longer time is also a public transport layer (ÖPNV-Karte)
available.
*OSM-Gadget is running now Openlayers 2.12 in a minimized version, so it
needs only 400kB instead of 1MB at the first time.
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
[1]http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lang=de&uselang=…